i'm trawling bsky for #GreenWoodworking and #HeritageCrafts makers and communities. ideally using traditional (especially #RedList - endangered) tools and techniques.
it's useful (for reasons) if they're UK-based, tho open to eyecandy from anywhere <3
if you know of any, pls send them my way!
Finished bowl, hollowed out, dismounted
Mounted and outside turned into a round shape
Half centered, screwed onto axle
Stem halved, core visible
The walnut tree I grew up playing in was felled last month after a long decline, terminated by honeyfungus. I'm making bowls from her limbs as gifts to the folks who helped that day.
#greenwoodworking #woodturning #juglansregia
A kubbestol (a chair or stool hewn from a log, preferably already hollow but not always). Currently working on shaping the back with gouges, chisels, and a gutter plane.
To the distinguished scholar who offered,
“The kubbestol/kubbstol is essentially a readymade and thus one of the more fundamental approaches to design, taking that which one has and adapting it to what you need…”
May I offer a polite…NOT EXACTLY.
#woodworking #greenwoodworking #bushcraft
Finished: Food Pusher Arounder
I was finally able to afford the tung oil I needed to finish this gorgeous Food Pusher Arounder ($2.99, jk.) & thought I'd show it off.
I have yet to use it though, lol.
#greenwoodworking #woodworking #woodworkingproject
A close view of black and gray double coated wool yarn forming at the orifice of a spinning wheel.
Found another four ounces of that Navajo Churro, so tackling that for Stage 20 of #TourdeFleece. It’s good we’re nearing the end of the TdF as I am getting itchy to put down the #handspinning and branch back out to #weaving and #handmadebooks and #greenwoodworking.
Locking lidded box in sugar maple. #greenwoodworking
Seated at a shaving horse and surrounded by piles of curly wood shavings - a naturally curved piece of white oak is clamped into the horse and has been shaved smooth with a draw knife.
7 sets of white oak stool legs poke out of the top of a wood kiln so that the tenons - the end of the leg which will be joined into the seat, can dry. Most of the legs are wrapped in tin foil, so that the exposed wood just outside the kiln does not dry too quickly.
A circular stool sear made of poplar, shaped, and worked smooth
A fully assembled 3-legged stool. It is roughly 20 inches tall. Each leg features a hand carved knee and calf to resemble a human leg. Curved rungs connect the three legs in a T shape.
Woodworking is no joke - this was the most physically demanding workshop I've taken by a mile! But I suppose that makes the end result that much more gratifying. Class was "Designing a 3 Legged Stool" with Charles Thompson at Arrowmont
#arrowmont #greenwoodworking #crafts
A red oak log being hollowed and shaped into a chair with a back.
A red oak log being hollowed and shaped into a chair with a back.
A historical example of a log chair, probably 19th century.
A “limbo” project. No, not the Tobago wake dance, rather a project that got set aside until that particular bit of dubious motivation strikes again. To wit: a carved log chair made from a felled red oak with a bad case of center rot. #woodworking #greenwoodworking #furniture #dubiousprojects
A collection of hatchets, axes, froes, mallets and auger bits laid out on a table. The axes have leather sheaths over the cutting edges. At the top left of the photo is the most important tool... a cup of tea.
A selection of #green woodworking tools for today's #BlueSkyArtShow. An art in itself!
#greenwoodworking #crafts #heritagecrafts #traditionalcrafts
Speaking of riving, what “decent” riven red oak looks like. Grain more straight than not (or knot), clearly see the sap wood (unusable in red oak), and center rot remained in the pith (also unusable). Note the black stains from iron wedges reacting with the tannins. Some of these pieces eventually became laundry bats for use at Jamestown Settlement museum.
Speaking of riving, what “decent” riven red oak looks like. Grain more straight than not (or knot), clearly see the sap wood (unusable in red oak), and center rot remained in the pith (also unusable). Note the black stains from iron wedges reacting with the tannins. #woodworking #greenwoodworking
The woodshed in its current state of disarray. Siding gets added as the mood strikes and appropriate stuff comes available.
The woodshed in its current state of disarray. #woodworking #greenwoodworking
It starts on the ground, putting together each side so they can be raised. Mostly just simple round mortise and tenon joints.
The basic framework for the woodshed in place. Most of the posts and beams are Paulownia, with the rafters mostly American Sycamore.
The store-bought pieces are the furring strips for the shingles. The rafters were kinda wavy, so I needed some straight surfaces to nail them to.
The framework and roof finished. Siding gets added as the impulse strikes, mostly red oak and now scrub pine. Cat
The woodshed was also largely an improvisation. The posts and rungs and shingles are Paulownia, and the siding is mostly red oak from a snag we had to drop. The oak had a lot of decay, but I used it anyway for a rustic, nay, even artsy feel. #woodworking #greenwoodworking.
Many poles of Paulownia and Sycamore leaning against the Folly.
So what does one do with all this wood? Well, we need some place to put it. If we put it in the Folly, there’s no place to work. I guess we need to build a wood shed. What do we build it with? Well, we’ve got all this wood sitting’ around…. #woodworking #greenwoodworking
A sawbuck: a heavy log mounted on four stake legs, with 4 more stakes pointed up to cradle the workpiece.
Woodworking is much easier when the stuff you’re working on doesn’t move around. This is a sawbuck, another useful piece for holding your work. This one is red oak because it needs to have mass (weight) to not bounce around. #woodworking #greenwoodworking
This section of red oak contained an earlier trunk that was eventually grown over. The outer growth was straight and hid the wild grain inside.
This oak trunk had a second tree inside. It appeared that the tree had once been on fire or hit by lightning.
These oak splits also had unseen flaws. Both contained essentially a second trunk that was eventually enclosed. Sometimes the bark will betray wild grain, but sometimes you have to open it up to find out. #woodworking #greenwoodworking #bushcraft
A cross section of an oak stump, showing a complex pattern of grain with two apparent piths. It appears that two stems eventually grew together to form a single truck.
You never know what you’re going to get. This section of oak shows what appears to have been two stems, which eventually grew into a single trunk. Great if you’re looking for interesting grain for an art piece, not so great if you wanted to rive out pieces for a chair. #woodworking #greenwoodworking
Several large Paulownia logs that have been peeled are leaning against the Folly. Another rests in a sawbuck.
A testament to Paulownia’s light weight: I cut, hauled all these logs up a steep bank, and peels them by myself. A fresh oak log would have been far too heavy for me to manage by myself. #woodworking #greenwoodworking #bushcraft
A pile of rough shingles that have been split out of truck rounds.
Shingles that have been dressed with a drawknife to smooth them out and edge them.
A couple of courses laid down. If nothing else, the price was right.
I’ve found a good use for paulownia is utility shingles. I wouldn’t use it for anything valuable, but for an outbuilding or shed they serve the purpose and so far seem to be reasonably decay resistant. #woodworking #greenwoodworking #bushcraft
While radial splits are made at right angles to the growth rings, bastard splits are made tangentially, across the grain.
On the left is riven Paulownia, on the right is bastard split.
Paulownia actually splits nicely if the trunk is relatively straight.
Usually radial splits is what you want. As Peter Follansbee says, “Riven wood is what quarter sawn wants to be.” But with Paulownia, radial splits leave deep channels, almost corrugated. For most uses, I found bastard splits effective.
#woodworking #greenwoodworking #bushcraft
The hollow form in a block of wood of a carved cup or kuksa, with a swan neck gouge and pencil sitting beside it.
Oval shaped hollow in a block of red alder wood, showing the annual growth rings and medullary rays.
Rainy day wood carving here in Ōtautahi. I'm making a giant tea mug or kuksa out of red alder, because the cold weather turns one's mind to hot beverages.
🧶🇳🇿
#greenwoodworking
#woodcarving
#kuksa
A brake for peeling and shaping a pole or log with a draw knife.
A 17th century picture of a man shaping a spar with a drawknife.
Another way to brace a pole for peeling and shaping. #woodworking #greenwoodworking #bushcraft
A riving brake, a jig for holding a workpiece for riving (splitting).
Forked timbers make good jigs for peeling logs without being hunched over.
Peeling jigs, with a pole in place for peeling with a draw knife.
Paulownia works well when you don’t need the mass (weight) of denser woods. I’ve used it for a number of brakes and jigs in the wood yard, without a back ache. #woodworking #tools #greenwoodworking #bushcraft
Birch eating spoon finished with some milk paint, chip carving, and walnut oil #eatingspoon #birch #spooncarving #greenwoodworking #madebyhand
